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Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Innovación y alfabetización mediática e informacional (AMI) en bibliotecas. Recursos, propuestas y tendencias in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoStarting from a review of the recent bibliography, we reflect on the role of libraries in promoting innovation. Training in media, informational and digital competencies is considered as a playing field in which librarians, educators and Administration have to come together, contributing their experience from complementary perspectives. Based on…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Crossref Event: Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThanks for sharing Charles. Just registered as this can be quite relevant for us here to participate in! Tom
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Charles Watkinson started the topic Crossref Event: Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe Crossref Books Advisory Group is holding a free webinar on “Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks – Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices.” It’s not solely about OA ebooks, but of course OA sheds a stark light on some of the current issues. The date is Tuesday October 19, 11-12:30 pm ET / 4:00 – 5:30 pm BST / 5:00 – 6:30…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoOpen Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer to support our development of open source infrastructure for open access book publishing. 18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-30k. Closing date 26 September. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/37/1
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoTaylor and Francis are looking for a Partnership Development Manager for Open Access books, and a Content Development Manager for Open Access books. Closing date 26…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoHi all, a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. We note that cOAlition S have recognised the OABN as a useful forum for community engagement in their statement…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic How to use the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoHi all,
Just a quick note to flag that we’ve switched off the Events calendar function on the site. People weren’t engaging with it, so instead of spending time updating it we’ll be focused on coordinating talks and workshops, fostering discussion, and making more people aware of this network. Anyone interested in a calendar of OA events might…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic OERs, Benefits and Perceptions in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoDear All,
In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]
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Arthur Boston deposited Open Citations and Open Peer Review: Toward a Better Thresher in Scientific Literature (V.2.) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoOpen citation data, open peer-review, and open access produce essential materials to transition toward meaningful reform in scientific research assessment. Current research assessment tools notably include, but are not limited to, citation-based measures (Journal Impact Factor, h-index) and article level metrics (download counts, social media);…[Read more]
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoFYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]
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Chelcie Rowell deposited Sharing Authority in Collaborative Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Library Workers’ Perspectives in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoOften collaborators come together to teach digital humanities (DH) in the hope of modeling for students what the humanities can be — generous, collaborative, publicly engaged. At times, though, collaborative DH pedagogy in fact reproduces power structures inherent in academic institutions, placing faculty, students, and staff in the same strict c…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Philippa, I’d be happy to discuss this — at OBP we have been approached by people interested in translating our OA books and I could talk through how we deal with this. Essentially, if the book is licensed CC BY then anyone can produce a translation as long as appropriate attribution is given, although it would also be best practice to say…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi all: the summaries from our Voices from the OA Books Community series are now available (thanks to the support of SPARC Europe) and will remain open until 12 August: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/07/22/voices-from-the-oa-books-community-summary-the-great-polyphony/
Many thanks to all who contributed to the sessions!
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe: capital de autoridad y citación in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoEn la construcción del conocimiento se evidencian enfoques dominantes y emergentes, manifestándose estos en las formas de investigar y socializar el conocimiento. La constitución del campo de los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe se encuentra en un proceso constante de cambios y contradicciones. Se…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Servicios de información en bibliotecas públicas y desarrollo comunitario. Estudio de caso en Fomento (Cuba) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoLas bibliotecas públicas son instituciones que contribuyen al desarrollo de las comunidades donde están situadas. Los servicios de punto de encuentro como servicio de información comunitario, constituyen una vía para el desarrollo de los usuarios. La ausencia de servicios de punto de encuentro, ha caracterizado a casi toda la red de bib…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet deposited Carrying on in a Pandemic: The Case of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFor this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.
FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]
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